Kent stumped by Ryan Sidebottom’s hard-earned labour

Nottinghamshire beat Kent by an innings and 32 runs

For the vulcanologists to heap all the blame on Iceland is a bit unfair. Ryan
Sidebottom has always been a temperamental chap and any flakey particles
uncovered by a scientific trawl through his Shirley Temple-like mop would
probably be less closely related to dandruff than to volcanic dust.

However, you’d be hard pressed to find a more 100 per cent heart-on-the-sleeve
character than Sidebottom, and if any England cricketer manages to take the
field in this summer’s Tests against Bangladesh with a mindset that he’s
playing against Australia, it’ll be him.

First, though, with England flying out to the Caribbean a week today for the
World Twenty20, Sidebottom has the crash-bang-wallop form of the game to get
ready for, and while county cricket doesn’t quite constitute the ideal
preparation, Nottinghamshire’s match against Kent at Trent Bridge was
required for fitness conditioning as much as anything else after his early
repatriation